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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Before and After: Sryria's Heritage

As those who read my blog know, I tend to write about cultural property destroyed by conflict. In the past year I have wrote on Syria. In this post, I want to share a short slide show that depicts before and after images of Syria cultural heritage sites destroyed by the current conflict. (You might like to expand the video when you watch)

In my slide show, I show the before and after of the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo. Below is a video of the aftermath of pillaging. In the video the Free Syrian Army accuses Assad's regime of using the site to jail women and children: